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bamboo crane

but it is different enough I figured to put it in the rigging section. When you need an anchor point in open space you gotta do something. At first we thought we might make a tripod to hang a block off...Alex, my son, had the idea to use the bamboo to make a boom to hang a block. We raised our first timber two days ago...3 more to go. They will be the supports for a walk up ladder/ramp tower to the slide entrance.

You can see the timbers he made by the pool...a 20' and a 16' notched and overlapped 4 feet, through bolted and screwed with some kind of fancy coated screw. They are BAD heavy...he and I moved the one we raised...WAY easier to climb and top a tree. I told him to call all his firefighter friends to move the rest of them.